APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script applications. Dynamic PHP websites keep their content within a database which is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content which has to be displayed is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled before it's delivered to the visitor. All these actions need some processing time and involve reading and writing on the web server for every single page which is accessed. While this cannot be avoided for Internet sites with regularly changing content, there are many Internet sites which offer the very same content on a number of of their pages constantly - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant sites, and many others. APC is very useful for this kind of Internet sites because it caches the already compiled code and displays it each time visitors browse the cached pages, so the code doesn't need to be parsed and compiled all over again. Not only will this minimize the server load, but it'll also increase the speed of any Internet site many times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Website Hosting

You can use APC with each cloud website hosting plan that we provide as it's already installed on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you just a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. As our system is quite flexible, you will be able to run Internet sites with different requirements and decide if they will work with APC or not. For instance, you could allow APC only for one release of PHP or you could do the latter for several of the versions running on our platform. It's also possible to select if all sites working with a certain PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be enabled just for selected sites and not for all sites in the hosting account. The last option is useful if you need to employ a different web accelerator for several of your Internet sites. These customizations are carried out with ease by using a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can take full advantage of APC with all our semi-dedicated server packages and activating this framework is done with a mouse click in the Hepsia Control Panel, so even when you have no prior experience, you will be able to use it in order to quicken your websites. As the cloud hosting platform where the semi-dedicated accounts are set up supports multiple PHP versions, you will have freedom regarding the scripts and web accelerators you will be able to employ. It will take you just a click to enable APC for one or several PHP releases and by using a php.ini file in the domain/subdomain folders where you need settings that are not the same as the ones for the account as a whole, you could set what PHP version will be used and whether APC needs to be enabled or not. In this way, one site could use APC and PHP 5.3, for example, whereas another one could use some different accelerator and PHP 5.5.